China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...
A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...
Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...
Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...
Antiferromagnetic (AF) materials are made up of atoms or molecules with atomic spins that align in antiparallel directions of ...
Al-based glassy alloys (metallic glasses) have been of great scientific and technological interest as a high specific strength and high corrosion resistant materials. However, the low glass-forming ...
The inclusion of a thicker aluminium oxide layer in TOPCon solar cells could provide superior resistance to UVID, according ...
One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...
A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...
A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking on-chip quantum memory platform using 3D-nanoprinted hollow-core waveguides called ...